18 OCTOBER 1940, page 2

News Of The Week

W ITH no news, as these words are written, of the British Minister having left Bucharest, relations with Rumania may be considered not to have reached an actual rupture. But it......

Insurance Against War Damage

The Bill to provide a national scheme of compulsory insur ance against war damage to property has not yet been pubhsh , but in answering a question on Tuesday Sir Kingsley W......

The Shelling Of Cherbourg

The combined naval and aerial attack on Cherbourg last Thursday night shows that the Navy is capable of dealing for- midable blows even at heavily fortified positions on an......

The War-aims Question

The right line regarding a statement of war-aims seems lie about half-way between Mr. Churchill's refusal to say any thing more and the desire of his questioners in the House o......

General De Gaulle On French Soil

General de Gaulle, cabling from Duala in French Africa to Mr. Churchill, is in the position of one Allied leader speaking to another from his own territory. His status in the......

President Roosevelt's Answer

President Roosevelt's broadcast last Sunday was a splendid reply on behalf of the democracies of the western hemisphere to the threats of the dictators as expressed, in their......